Obama administration issues new policy on medical marijuana

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By Carrie Johnson
The Obama administration delivered new guidance on medical marijuana to federal prosecutors Monday, signaling a broad policy shift that will mean fewer crackdowns against dispensaries and the people who use them.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. instructed government lawyers that in 14 states where medical marijuana use is legal, federal prosecutors should focus only on cases involving higher level drug traffickers or people who use the state laws as a cover story.

"It will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers who are complying with state laws on medical marijuana, but we will not tolerate drug traffickers who hide behind claims of compliance with state law to mask activities that are clearly illegal," Holder said. "This balanced policy formalizes a sensible approach that the Department has been following since January: effectively focus our resources on serious drug traffickers while taking into account state and local laws."

The amount of money they waste trying to inforce this law that still has 1950's thinking could be used to fund so many things they are taking away from us due to lack of funding. It would free up jail space, free up officers to do real police work, create a new industry for jobs and a tax sourced income. That would be the sane thing to do. More people die from those talking on the phone while driving then anything pot related. Yet this is an illegal act that is not enforced. The Gov of california's wife has been caught on camera severial times doing just that and this is a law her husband pushed through. Next time you have to call 911 count how long it takes to be helped. The long wait is because all the police are out busting pot shops. It was legal years ago and the country didn't fall apart. It was made illegal because it couldn't be regulated and a gov made his lifes work to make illegal. Booze was illegal and people woke up and brought it back, (more people die from drunk drivers then ever will from pot). I smoked for years and held down a good job, got married, Bought a house and was totaly in control of my life. I didn't sit around all the time with the munchies and not do anything with my life. Years of negative was drilled into the past few generations and most of what you have heard is false. Lets all stop living with these lies they have been feeding us all these years.

The only question worth asking, the only question that cuts to the heart of this issue and, really, every other that troubles those of us in this Christian nation, is, "What would Jesus have done?"

Fortunately, starting later this month, FOX News will air its first of a series with just that title. Hosted by Rush Limbaugh, the series will concentrate on soliciting the opinions of community, business and political leaders and present clear, fair and balanced answers so no one will be troubled by having to think.

If Obama wanted real change in the medical pot laws he would ask congress to take up this bill. But nooooo! He dickers around with disingenuous policy pronouncements while turning a blind eye to the fact that the federal laws, that he is sworn to uphold and enforce, mandate prosecution.

A federal-local, secretive executive branch-directed multi-agency coordinated action program -- an ongoing legacy of the Bush-Cheney years -- is committing a quiet genocide on thousands of unjustly targeted Americans via microwave/laser weaponry; covert financial exploitation; and a grassroots vigilante army fronted by community policing, town watch and anti-terrorism units who use covertly placed warrantless GPS devices, and cell phones, to stalk their targets -- protected by federal and local law enforcement who know all about it...

There is nothing new about this disingenuous policy. It is what Obama has been saying out of one side of his mouth since taking office. Out the other side of his mouth is the caveat of "strict compliance" and federal support of local authorities. The feds investigate for pretexts and turn them over to zealous local prosecutors for action.

This is a great step; it really is time to stop putting people in jail for using an herbal remedy. Next: As a nation, let's adopt an approach allowing individuals to grow a little marijuana for personal use. It will put the illegal drug dealers out of business in a year. Limit the size of the growing area or the number of plants, and put a small user-fee on it to cover administrative costs, something like a fishing license.

One possibility:$100 per year for a permit to cultivate a dozen plants.
It's a win-win.